The Arch of Constantine Seen from the Colosseum

Lancelot Théodore Turpin de Crissé

1818–38 · Oil on paper, laid down on canvas · European Paintings

Turpin de Crissé is thought to have begun this architectural view during his second trip to Rome, in 1818, and to have completed it on his subsequent trip, in 1838. His keen eye for picturesque composition and his consummate precision are comparable to the work of the leading history painter and portraitist of the period, J. A. D. Ingres, who was a close friend. Turpin’s talent and his royalist sympathies combined to cement his success after the restoration of the Bourbon monarchy in 1815.

Artist

Lancelot Théodore Turpin de Crissé

Date

1818–38

Medium

Oil on paper, laid down on canvas

Department

European Paintings

Credit line

Thaw Collection, Jointly Owned by The Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Morgan Library & Museum, Gift of Eugene V. Thaw, 2009